Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 47/2016 of 18 March 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1877]
Date: 2016-03-18
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer protection, food additive, food safety, foodstuff, market approval, revision of an agreement, salt




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19.10.2017   


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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 47/2016
of 18 March 2016
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1877]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1725 of 28 September 2015 amending Annex to Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 laying down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards specifications for Ethyl lauroyl arginate (E 243) (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1739 of 28 September 2015 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 as regards the use of the iron tartrate as an anti-caking agent in salt and its substitutes (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding foodstuffs. Legislation regarding foodstuffs shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the introduction to Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






1.


The following indent is added in point 54zzzzr (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council):






‘—



32015 R 1739: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1739 of 28 September 2015 (OJ L 253, 30.9.2015, p. 3).’














2.


The following indents are added in point 69 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012):






‘—



32015 R 1725: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1725 of 28 September 2015 (OJ L 252, 29.9.2015, p. 12),










—



32015 R 1739: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1739 of 28 September 2015 (OJ L 253, 30.9.2015, p. 3).’










Article 2
The texts of Regulations (EU) 2015/1725 and (EU) 2015/1739 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 19 March 2016, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 4
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 18 March 2016.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 252, 29.9.2015, p. 12.

(2)  
            OJ L 253, 30.9.2015, p. 3.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.